Estimated nursery liner production costs for woody ornamental plant stock

HortTechnology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 804-811

  Jeffers, Andrew H ^a   Klingeman, William E ^a   Hall, Charles R ^b   Palma, Marco A ^b   Buckley, David S ^a   Kopsell, Dean A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Containers; Field grown liners; Fixed; Ground bed; Polyhouse covering; Variable

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956209022     PISSN: 10630198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/horttech.20.4.804     Document Type: Article

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